By Demi Prentiss, reprinted from Living God’s Mission. Note: Originally posted in the July 10, 2022 edition of ISSUES, the daily newsletter of The Consultation published during General Convention of The Episcopal Church in Baltimore, July 8-11, 2022. The Diocese of Northern California offered a resolution (C028) to this year’s General Convention which proposed to open communion to unbaptized persons,…
Reprinted from the Salt & Light Australia Daily Devotional. Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles. And let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us, fixing our eyes on Jesus, the pioneer and perfecter of faith. For the joy that was…
By David Gill, reprinted from The 313. J. Daryl Charles is director and senior fellow of the Institute for Critical Thought & Practice at Bryan College. Among his books are Retrieving the Natural Law: A Return to Moral First Things (2008) and The Unformed Conscience of Evangelicalism: Recovering the Church’s Moral Vision (2002). Work and Wisdom is a wonderful read and I would put it at…
By David Williamson. The mission statement of our new residence reads: “Realize the limitless possibilities of senior life.” This is a grand statement for marketing, and was helpful for my wife and me to choose this as our new residence: Friendship Village (in Bloomington, Mn.) affirms that it is the right of all residents to receive quality health and wellness…
By Lyn Weston, reprinted from the London Institute for Contemporary Christianity. As soon as Jezebel heard that Naboth had been stoned to death, she said to Ahab, ‘Get up and take possession of the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite that he refused to sell you. He is no longer alive, but dead.’ When Ahab heard that Naboth was dead, he got…
Reprinted from the Oikonomia Network. The vision of the Economic Wisdom Project is summarized in twelve “elements” that provide starting points for thoughtful, biblically informed understanding of contemporary opportunities and challenges. For a handy guide to the twelve elements, download this one-page summary, taken from our EWP vision paper “A Christian Vision for Flourishing Communities”: Below is an excerpt from the paper “Twelve Elements of Economic…
Reprinted from the Chalmers Center. Part one of a series. Poverty alleviation is fundamentally about transformation – about walking alongside people and communities who are materially poor as they move to a better situation than their present one. Doing this effectively requires us to know where we are trying to go and how we can get there. In other words, we need…
By Lisa Slayton, reprinted from The Tamim Journey. This is the fifth in a series. We can be made whole, we can become more and more of who God made us to be. And to do so, we must let go, release and embrace the uninvited embrace. The Liminal Space We talk often of letting go and releasing as part of transformation,…
By Demi Prentiss, reprinted from Living God’s Mission. Note: This post was originally published on June 1, 2022. Here we are, caught in the liminal time between Ascension Day and Pentecost. Suspended in the “not yet,” unclear and unaware of the power in the “already.” Jesus’ departure from the disciples opens the door for the work of the Spirit, already…
Reprinted from the Salt & Light Australia Daily Devotional. So from now on we regard no one from a worldly point of view. Though we once regarded Christ in this way, we do so no longer. Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: the old has gone, the new is here! All this is from God, who reconciled us to…
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